SanDisk has unveiled a new SSD today called the
Ultra that is now shipping to retailers.

TheUltra
SSD is sized to work in a notebook or a desktop computer and is designed
for a drop-in upgrade to a machine for users. The SSD reads up to 280MB/s
sequentially and up to 270MB/s sequential writes are supported.The drive has a mean time between failure rating
of up to a million hours.

"Replacing a computer's hard disk drive with
the SanDisk Ultra SSD is more cost effective than buying a new PC," said
Kent Perry, director, product marketing, SanDisk. "Our new SSD delivers
greater speed and reliability than a hard disk drive at an affordable
price."

The SSD is offered in three capacities with a 60GB
for $129.99, 120GB for $219.99, and a 240GB for $449.99. All three capacities
are available right now in the U.S. and can be purchased from Newegg and other
retailers.

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If I can fit Windows 7, World of Warcraft, and Eve Online as well as assorted apps on my 80gig Intel then I think you can make due with an SSD and just use your current C drive for other stuff. Not EVERYTHING has to go on the SSD, you know.

You really don't know what you're missing man. I'm telling ya, you have to live it to love it.

^ That's because you haven't yet gone to a client-server setup. Most things like documents, projects, media, don't need to be stored separately on every single client system. Games are an exception but most people do not play over a dozen largish games at the same time so they don't really need dozens of GB of rapidly accessed space on a client HDD... especially these days, with main system memory so cheap you're able to cache all the game files so even loads over GbE become more tolerable.

I'm suggesting that is best, yes. Best because then all your computing devices have central access, because you have central backup capability, less risk without insecure apps running (like on a windows client PC), and it reduces the storage needs of the client systems enough that it makes SSDS viable /if/ you want to use them.

"The rest of us"? I don't see why you try to single him out, it's a fact most people store their stuff locally and it's completely dumb to try to put everything on the "cloud" too. A properly made local solution will be much faster and nearly as safe as anything you can find on the web.